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Tiistai 18. huhtikuuta 2023 - Strasbourg

4.7. EU:n päästökauppajärjestelmän tarkistaminen ilmailun osalta (A9-0155/2022 - Sunčana Glavak) (äänestys)

– After the vote:

  Peter Liese (PPE). – Madam President, dear colleagues, we have now agreed on the cornerstone of Fit for 55 – like Esther de Lange said, the Holy Trinity of the ETS, CBAM and the social climate fund. This is good for the climate, it’s good for people and it’s good for our jobs in industry.

One point only I wanted to make: many people say the social climate fund is so small, but it is big; it is more than EUR 80 billion. But what we achieved – and this was something for which Parliament fought for many, many years – is that also Member States’ money, the national revenues, which all in all may be about EUR 700 billion, should be spent on a purpose. They should not disappear somewhere. They should be spent for innovation. For the ETS too we have made clear that funding should be spent taking social aspects into account. This is important. It’s not only the social climate fund, it’s an overall package.

Thank you to everybody who helped. To Ester, David Casa, Sunčana Glavak, and a special greeting to Mohammed Chahim as it’s his birthday today. And thank you to our staff.

  President. – Happy birthday, Mr Chahim.